* Describe your first student teaching context (school setting). What school are you at, what are some of its characteristics, and what classes are you teaching, and how are classes scheduled at your school?
The first school that I am at is a Middle school designed so each grade level has a different floor which is divided into three pods on each level. Within each pod is a meeting room, reading/extra help room/ and each of the four man subjects with all the materials they could need to function as a team. My own classroom contains all the kits and materials that the school utilizes as well materials from past years that can be incorporated into the curriculum as needed. All of the classes I am teaching are in the 6th grade utilizing the Magnets and Motors Gems Net Kit along with whatever resources I add into it. The kit only comes with 13 or so lesson plans which should be covered over a 3 month period. I teach 4 class periods every day, each an hour long (except for 1 out of 6 days where it rotates to a 45 min. periods for each pod taught class), with one PP and one CPT each day also an hour each. The times I teach rotate over 6 days as follows.
Day 4 8:15-11:15 is 4, 45 minute periods.
Times
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
Day 6
8:15 - 9:15
A
PP
PP
B-C
A
C
9:15 - 10:15
B
CPT
B
C-D
PP
CPT
10:15 - 11:15
C
D
CPT
D-A
B
D
11:15 - 12:15
D
A
C
PP
C
PP
12:15 - 12:40
Lunch
Lunch
Lunch
Lunch
Lunch
Lunch
12:40 - 1:40
CPT
B
D
Area
CPT
A
1:40 - 2:40
PP
C
A
CPT
D
B
* Explain one of your "stealth" objectives that you want to accomplish with your students and why.
One of my stealth objectives to make them realize that they can take what they learn in the classroom and apply it in other areas of their lives. I feel that this is important because it may help them realize that the school and what they do, learn, accomplish, ect. here is not separate from what goes on at home, or in the rest of their lives. Occasionally the students bring their lives into the school, but rarely do students go home to their parents and say "Guess what I learned about today' or even better show their parents what they have learned by applying it to the rest of their lives. Something as simple as realizing that the scientific method is one way you can approach problem solving and that you can apply problem solving to more than just tasks teachers set you in school is a great start. Once they realize how they can take what they learn and use it once, t makes it easier for them to do it again and again.
* Describe your first student teaching context (school setting). What school are you at, what are some of its characteristics, and what classes are you teaching, and how are classes scheduled at your school?
The first school that I am at is a Middle school designed so each grade level has a different floor which is divided into three pods on each level. Within each pod is a meeting room, reading/extra help room/ and each of the four man subjects with all the materials they could need to function as a team. My own classroom contains all the kits and materials that the school utilizes as well materials from past years that can be incorporated into the curriculum as needed. All of the classes I am teaching are in the 6th grade utilizing the Magnets and Motors Gems Net Kit along with whatever resources I add into it. The kit only comes with 13 or so lesson plans which should be covered over a 3 month period. I teach 4 class periods every day, each an hour long (except for 1 out of 6 days where it rotates to a 45 min. periods for each pod taught class), with one PP and one CPT each day also an hour each. The times I teach rotate over 6 days as follows.
Day 4 8:15-11:15 is 4, 45 minute periods.
* Explain one of your "stealth" objectives that you want to accomplish with your students and why.
One of my stealth objectives to make them realize that they can take what they learn in the classroom and apply it in other areas of their lives. I feel that this is important because it may help them realize that the school and what they do, learn, accomplish, ect. here is not separate from what goes on at home, or in the rest of their lives. Occasionally the students bring their lives into the school, but rarely do students go home to their parents and say "Guess what I learned about today' or even better show their parents what they have learned by applying it to the rest of their lives. Something as simple as realizing that the scientific method is one way you can approach problem solving and that you can apply problem solving to more than just tasks teachers set you in school is a great start. Once they realize how they can take what they learn and use it once, t makes it easier for them to do it again and again.